Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States
Native speakers
105 (2016 census)[1]
Language family
Salishan
Coast
Central
Straits Salish
North Straits Salish
Dialects
Lummi
Saanich
Samish
Semiahmoo (†)
Songhees
T'sou-ke (†)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
str
Glottolog
stra1244
ELP
Northern Straits Salish
Northern Straits Salish is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Northern Straits Salish (also referred to as North Straits Salish)[2] is a language composed of several mutually-intelligible dialects within the Coast Salish language family spoken in western Washington and British Columbia. The various dialects of Northern Straits Salish are often referred to as separate languages, both in historic and modern times, and although their similarities are recognized by its speakers, there is no word for the language as a whole.
^Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics (28 March 2018). "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90)". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Montler, Timothy (1999). "Language and Dialect Variation in Straits Salishan". Anthropological Linguistics. 41 (4): 462–502. ISSN 0003-5483.
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